New Jersey Court of Chancery, 1896

Inhabitants of Bloomfield v. Mayor of Glen Ridge

Inhabitants of Bloomfield v. Mayor of Glen Ridge
New Jersey Court of Chancery · Decided February 15, 1896 · Reed
54 N.J. Eq. 284

Counsel

Mr. George S. Hilton, for the complainant., Mr. Joseph G. Gallagher and Mr. Joseph Coult, for the defendants.

Inhabitants of Bloomfield v. Mayor of Glen Ridge

Opinion of the Court

Reed, V. C.

The same principles are involved in this case as in the preceding ease. For the reasons there given, I conclude that the control over the hydrants which, by the alteration of the township lines, are thrown into the borough limits, passed to the borough government. The borough has the right to control hydrants. P. L. of 1878 p. 12 §§ 5, 11; P. L. of 1888 p. 226.

The township being stripped of its right to control them, it has no tooting to ask this court to enjoin the defendants from doing so or from interfering with the complainant in doing so.

Decree will be advised for the demurrants.

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